Two Raphael cartoons, Victoria and Albert Museum

Jan. 01, 1966 - A new setting for the Raphael cartoons at the Victoria and Albert Museum: A new setting at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the seven surviving cartoons for tapestries by Raphael has been designed by the Ministry of Public Building and Works in collaboration with the Museum authorities and the Surveyor of the Queen's pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt. Several now features have been added to the West Court which houses them and which is being re-opened to the public on Friday 28th January. These cartoons, belonging to the Queen, are among the most precious possessions in the royal and national collections, and the project was intended to improve so that now, the enormous frames, weighing rather more than a ton each, are set on a hinges and can easily be manoeuvred away from the wall. The opportunity has also been taken to regild the frames, and to replace the greenish glass, which had falsified the colours of the cartoons, with glass more purely transparent. Photo shows two of the cartoons pictured at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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